Bicycle osl-cup holder



E. BROWER & A. M. STILLMAN.

(No Model.)

BICYCLE OIL 0UP HOLDER.

No. 468,093. PatentedfNov. 10, 1391.

WWW/ I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWVIN BROWVER AND AUGUSTUS STILLMA N, OF HARTFORD,

CONNECTICUT.

BICYCLE OlL CUP HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 463,093, dated November 10, 1891.

Application filed July 20,1891. Serial No. 400,128. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWIN BROWER and AUGUSTUS M. STILLMAN, both of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connectiout, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Bicycle Oil-Cup Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, whereby any one skilled in the art can make and use the same.

The object of our invention is to provide on a bicycle or like vehicle'a safe and convenient place and means for storing an oilcup.

It has been found by experience that however tight or close the joints of an oil-cup may be made there will always be more or less leakage from the cup, and if it is put into a tool-bag the result is that in a shorttime the bag and its contents will be saturated with oil. When a cup is secured in an exposed position on the frame of the machine it is liable to be displaced and lost.

Our invention consists in combining with a hollow seat-post a removable oil-can with means for temporarily securing the can in place in the socket when not in use, and in details of the several parts making up the device as a whole, and in their combination, as more particularly hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a side view of a seat-post clamp such as is adapted to be used on a Columbia wheel with a hollow portion of the seat-post secured in the clamp. Fig. 2 is a detail view in central section of the seatpost and in side view of the oil-can.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter Ct denotes the frame of a bicycle; b, a seat-post clamp, and c a seat-post having a tubular end.

In carrying out our invention a thread 0' is cut on the inner surface of the seat-post, and a spring-latch d is secured to the post with a pin or bolt projecting through a hole near the lower end of the seat-post. A tubular oil-can e of a well-known form is provided with a base-piece f, preferably formed of thin metal, and having a shoulder g and a thread- This base-piece is secured to the ed stem 72.

lower end of the oil-can and the lower part is milled on the periphery, so as to afford a convenient surface for grasping firmly enough 'to securely hold the can in securing it in the socket in the hollow end of the tool-post. A bolt-socket h is formed in the side of the base-piece" in proper position to receive the pin (1' when the oil-can is in the socket.

\Vith the several parts fitted with the device, as described, the oil-can is stored by inserting it in the lower end of the seat-post, which is convenient of access and turning it to screw it in place, the spring-catch looking it when the shoulder g encounters the lower end of the tube. Held in this way the oil-can is out of the way, is held upright, and cannot leak to the detriment of any surrounding part.

\Vhen the oil-can is needed for use a handle on the spring-catch, preferably formed by the projecting lower end, is grasped and the pin lifted out of engagement with the socket h in the base-piece of the oil-can, and by unscrewing the latter it is released from the socket.

WVe claim as our invention- 1. In combination with the frame of a bicycle, a seat-post secured to said frame and having a tubular lower end, a threaded socket formed within the seat-post, a spring-catch secured to the outer surface of the seat-post, having a pin extending through a hole in the wall of the seat-post, and also a handle for operating the spring-catch to release the oil-can, a removable oil-can having a threaded basepiece shouldered and milled, as described, and a bolt-socket that registers with the opening through the wall of the seat-post, all substan- 

